Putting lipstick on a pit in Allston

The Crimson reports Harvard is listening to residents not looking forward to a decade of living near a crater:

The proposal - the result of the Allston Development Group' s collaboration with the Boston Redevelopment Association - consists of removing the current scaffolding around the perimeter of the construction site and replacing it with a more permanent wood fence. The site would be surrounded by native perennial plants such as winterberry and red twig dogwood, in addition to river birches and red maples.